Leonid Bershidsky

The Ukraine counteroffensive is coinciding with peak infighting among the most notorious of the Russian not-quite-regulars — and a nadir of their military strength.

In a war, the side that isn’t prepared for setbacks can come apart at the first signs of trouble; overconfidence and panic are opposite sides of the same coin.

Kids may learn exactly the wrong lesson about education from their schools’ failure to innovate during the pandemic.

Russia has launched its third new nuclear icebreaker as part of a massive effort to control shipping routes before the ice melts.

It's inevitable that the online trade's decentralization pushes more packaging out to consumers. That doesn't mean, however, that we should get as much of it as we do.

Services like Uber and Lyft account for such a small share of urban travel that focusing on them as a source of trouble is probably wrong, if easing congestion is the goal. If they're not the solution, they're not really the problem, either.

Rational people are resistant to propaganda, and irrational ones only consume messages that stroke their confirmation biases. No one, however, can be impervious to personal attacks on a mass scale.

There is no doubt by now that Putin knows every available detail of the case, which triggered the European Union's toughest sanctions on Russia.

Cut the apps and useless alerts, don't treat every ping like an order to respond, disconnect. It's hard to be completely clean, but you can be healthier.

One of the hardest things for a foreigner to understand in U.S. politics, especially its rather extreme 2016 version, is the willingness of voters to support candidates they deemed unacceptable earlier in the campaign. Because the U.S. presidential election narrows to a two-candidate race, the calculus of voters and political operatives shifts in spectacular ways. … Continue reading Fear of Clinton motivates some Trump supporters